John Morris Board’s Director, infinite io

infinite io, Inc. announced that John Morris, the former CEO of Cleversafe, has joined its board of directors as an independent director.

He has been recognized throughout his career as a driver of business transformation and has held executive leadership positions at technology start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.

He most recently was the VP and GM of IBM‘s object storage Division. He was the president and CEO of Cleversafe prior to its acquisition by IBM in 2015, growing the company’s position during his tenure. Prior roles include serving as a member of the executive committee of Juniper Networks, as EVP of WW field operations, where he helped add more than a billion dollars to Juniper’s top line. He also led Pay By Touch, a payments industry start-up, in their implementation of its bio-metric solution in thousands of retail stores as its president and COO. Over more than twenty years at IBM, he held numerous executive general management roles including several with multi-billion-dollar revenue responsibilities and various executive roles while spending four years living in the AsiaPac region. He also served as chairman of the Field Council for Juniper, and as a member of the Global Marketing Council and senior leadership group for IBM.

“We are honored to have John join our board of directors. His experience in company scaling will be invaluable as we transform the market by making cloud storage a transparent extension of existing workflows,” said Mark Cree, io president and CEO.

“infinite io has a differentiated solution that solves a challenge facing all object storage vendors and public cloud providers as they attempt to expand their market presence. I look forward to working with Mark and the infinite io team,” said Morris.